Definitions for abyss
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Princeton's WordNet(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. abyss, abysm(noun)

   a bottomless gulf or pit; any unfathomable (or apparently unfathomable) cavity or chasm or void extending below (often used figuratively)

Wiktionary(4.50 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. abyss(Noun)

   A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable.

   Etymology: * First attested in the late 14th century.

2. abyss(Noun)

   Hell; the bottomless pit; primeval chaos.

   Etymology: * First attested in the late 14th century.

3. abyss(Noun)

   Infinite time; a vast intellectual or moral depth.

   Etymology: * First attested in the late 14th century.

4. abyss(Noun)

   The center of an escutcheon.

   Etymology: * First attested in the late 14th century.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Abyss(noun)

   a bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable, and, specifically, hell, or the bottomless pit

   Etymology: [L. abyssus a bottomless gulf, fr. Gr. bottomless; 'a priv. + depth, bottom.]

2. Abyss(noun)

   infinite time; a vast intellectual or moral depth

   Etymology: [L. abyssus a bottomless gulf, fr. Gr. bottomless; 'a priv. + depth, bottom.]

3. Abyss(noun)

   the center of an escutcheon

   Etymology: [L. abyssus a bottomless gulf, fr. Gr. bottomless; 'a priv. + depth, bottom.]

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Abyss

   In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the Abyss, or more fully, the Infinite Layers of the Abyss, is a chaotic evil-aligned plane of existence. It is one of a number of alignment-based Outer Planes that form part of the standard Dungeons & Dragons cosmology, used in the Planescape and Greyhawk campaign settings. The Abyss is also the name of one of the faith-based outer planes that form part of the Forgotten Realms cosmology. While the published 3rd-Edition source books indicate that the Abyss of the standard D&D cosmology is not the same plane as the Abyss of the Forgotten Realms cosmology, they are for all practical purposes identical.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Abyss

   a-bis′, n. a bottomless gulf: a deep mass of water.—adj. Abyss′al. [Gr. abyssos, bottomless—a, without, byssos, bottom.]

The Roycroft Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. abyss

   1. The measureless gulf between literature and the American magazine. 2. The distance between a thinker and an editorial writer.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. abyss

   A deep mass of waters; in hydrography it was synonymous with gulf.

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Anagrams for abyss »

1. bassy

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of abyss in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of abyss in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of abyss in a Sentence

1. Friedrich Nietzsche:

   He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.

2. Chief Executive Lam:

   Take a minute to look at our city, our home, can we bear to push it into the abyss and see it smashed to pieces?

3. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche:

   If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

4. Jeroen Dijsselbloem:

   I wish that less time would be given to interviews, and more on extraordinarily conscientiously working on keeping Greece from the threatening abyss.

5. Luise Neumann-Cosel:

   We are on course for a catastrophe, we are in a car and we are driving at 250 km per hour toward an abyss... We need fewer cars.

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